Hotel Edward - London, United Kingdom 

The hotel was an excellent two star one, with private facilities and tea & coffee boiler.. Perfect to stay in for a holiday.. Really pleasant!! Truly recommended... :-)

my wife and I booked a theatre trip to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. we booked via lastminute.com and appeared to get a really good deal, theatre tickets for Lord of the Rings and a nights accomadation for less that ?100. Unfortunately we had transportation problems and had to find alternative transportation from Leicester to London. On the trip down to London we spent 2 hours trying to get through to the hotel to check what the latest time we could check in. Althought we were supposed to have been able to check in from 14:00 no one answered the phone until 17:00. We had chosen the Edward hotel because of its location and the amenities its claimed to offer. Such as en-suite bathroom, Satelite Tv in Room safe etc. We arrived at the hotel at about 23:30, had to wait for about half an hour whilst the night porter dealt with a group of italian tourists. The problem was, the night porter spoke rather broken english and no Italian. The italians meanwhile could also only speak rather broken English. Eventually we got checked in and headed up to our room. Upon arrival we found our room down a small dingy corridor. The room itself wasn't bad, 2 comfortable beds, which we simply pushed together to make a double bed. Its from this point on we had problems. My wife nipped the bathroom and came running back out, as she'd found what looked like a baby cockroach climbing the walls. I took a quick photo of it with my camera phone and then got rid of it. The amenities that the hotel boasts appear to be destinctly lacking - satelitie TV? you get Sky News and CNN and that's only if someone has remembered to turn the channel on downstairs. The in room safe was superbly secure, i couldn't even find it!!!! So there was no way any burgular was going to. The door didn't have any proper locking device, even the door chain was missing. The hotels only plus point was the free WI-FI available, although all the exposed routers on each floor does pang of a rather DIY approach- but as an IT engineer even i had to admit that it worked. At the end of the day however, if you are looking for a dirt cheap hotel in which to get a bit of kip then you could do worse, i know i have in the past, however if you want my adivce and can stretch to the extra cost then i'd stay in a travel lodge or similar, at the end of the day at least with them you know what you're paying for.